· 7 In consecutive chapters, Emergency Chronicles takes up two of the most cited authoritarian projects of the Emergency—the controversy around Sanjay Gandhi’s Maruti Car and the slum demolition and sterilization programs spearheaded by Jagmohan, then chairman of the Delhi Development Authority. Prakash demonstrates the interconnectedness of the two projects arguing Author: Preeti Singh. · The gripping story of an explosive turning point in the history of modern India. On the night of J, Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency in India, suspending constitutional rights and rounding up her political opponents in midnight raids across the country. In the twenty-one harrowing months that followed, her regime unleashed a brutal campaign of coercion and intimidation, Brand: Princeton University Press. "Emergency Chronicles is perhaps the most comprehensive scholarly examination yet of the Emergency. Looking back more than four decades after Indira Gandhi stunned India and the world by suspending democracy, historian Gyan Prakash argues forcefully that this was no momentary distortion in India's democratic record or a nightmare that came from nowhere and vanished without a /5(34).
Emergency Chronicles: Indira Gandhi and Democracy's Turning Point. ( ratings by Goodreads) Paperback. English. By (author) Gyan Prakash. Share. Also available in. Hardback US$ The gripping story of an explosive turning point in the history of modern India. Emergency Chronicles: Indira Gandhi and Democracy's Turning Point. On the night of J, Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency in India, suspending constitutional rights and rounding up her political opponents in midnight raids across the country. In the twenty-one harrowing months that followed, her regime unleashed a brutal. The author of Emergency Chronicles: Indira Gandhi and Democracy's Turning Point responds to Arvind Rajagopal's review of his book published in EPW (1 June ), "The Emergency: A Watershed in.
Overview. Author (s) Praise On the night of J, Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency in India, suspending constitutional rights and rounding up her political opponents in midnight raids across the country. In the twenty-one harrowing months that followed, her regime unleashed a brutal campaign of coercion and intimidation, arresting and torturing people by the tens of thousands, razing slums, and imposing compulsory sterilization on the poor. by. Gyan Prakash, Penguin Random House (Contributor) · Rating details · ratings · 14 reviews. The gripping story of an explosive turning point in the history of modern India. On the night of J, Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency in India, suspending constitutional rights and rounding up her political opponents in midnight raids across the country. The gripping story of an explosive turning point in the history of modern India. On the night of J, Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency in India, suspending constitutional rights and rounding up her political opponents in midnight raids across the country. In the twenty-one harrowing months that followed, her regime unleashed a brutal campaign of coercion and intimidation, arresting and torturing people by the tens of thousands, razing slums, and imposing compulsory.
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